OCN London · RQF Level 3
OCNLR Level 3 Diploma in Creating and Sustaining a Business
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits38
- Units in this qualification21
Awarded by OCN London · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units OCN London registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Branding and Selling a Product or ServiceReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Assess a range of methods for selling a product or service.
- Price own product or service.
- Understand how the effective use of branding supports sales.
- Set sales targets for own product or service.
Creating a Social EnterpriseReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to create a social enterprise.
- Develop an action plan for a social enterprise idea.
Designing a Service of Saleable QualityReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal requirements of offering a service.
- Understand ethical and ecological considerations in producing and selling a service.
- Understand quality control measures appropriate to the delivery of a service.
- Evaluate a service for market.
Developing Social Enterprise for a Public Sector ServiceReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between social enterprise and public service delivery.
- Understand public sector procurement processes in relation to social enterprise.
- Plan for the development of a social enterprise in relation to public service delivery.
Digital Content Creation and Management for Social Media MarketingReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of digital marketing.
- Create content for a social media marketing campaign.
- Manage a social media marketing campaign.
- Maximise the effectiveness of digital content for online marketing.
Giving a Business PresentationReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a business presentation.
- Give an effective business presentation.
Launching an Online BusinessReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Select the most appropriate method of building an online store.
- Display product or service information for an online store.
- Manage the inventory of an online store.
- Understand methods and processes of online payments.
- Carry out an online transaction.
- Review and use details about an online transaction.
- Understand the implications of running an online business.
Making a Product of Saleable QualityReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal requirements of selling a specific product.
- Understand ethical and ecological considerations in product design and development.
- Understand quality control measures appropriate to a specific product.
- Evaluate a product for market.
Managing Health and Safety Risks in a BusinessReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out a health and safety risk assessment.
- Record workplace health and safety risk assessments.
- Understand the implications for own business of complying with health and safety requirements.
Managing an Online StoreReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor sales and fulfil orders in an online store.
- Optimise online store trading.
- Monitor customer response for an online store and respond to problems.
- Understand compliance responsibilities around the handling of personal data.
- Understand indirect tax issues associated with internet trading.
- Understand capital and revenue expenses connected to the internet.
Project Management for a BusinessReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental processes involved in project management within a business context.
- Produce a comprehensive project plan that clearly defines specified aims and desired outcomes.
- Understand the distinct roles and responsibilities typically assigned to members of a project team.
- Understand the importance of effective stakeholder management and its impact on project success within a business.
- Implement a project plan, adhering to timelines, budgets, and resource allocations.
- Evaluate the success of a project against pre-defined objectives and key performance indicators.
Purchasing and Managing Supplies for a BusinessReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for necessary supplies for own business.
- Achieve best value when purchasing supplies.
- Understand issues of ethical procurement.
- Understand the implications of purchasing supplies for public sector contracts.
- Manage supplies to maximise the profitability of own business.
Recruiting EmployeesReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the implications of employing staff in a business.
- Set recruitment requirements for a job vacancy in a business.
- Advertise for a job vacancy in a business.
- Draft a contract of employment.
- Conduct a selection and interview process.
Self Development for Business Sustainability and GrowthReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate own strengths and weaknesses in terms of business skills.
- Assess the benefits to own business of improving skills and knowledge.
- Develop a plan for improving own skills and knowledge.
Showcasing a Product or ServiceReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key criteria for showcasing a product or service.
- Showcase a product or service.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a showcase opportunity.
Social Enterprise for Voluntary Organisations and CharitiesReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprise.
- Assess the feasibility of running a social enterprise within a voluntary organisation or charity.
Sub-Contracting WorkReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Agree and assess contracts for sub-contracted work or services.
- Deal with sub-contractor failures to meet terms and conditions.
- Negotiate with sub-contractors to vary a contract.
Tendering for WorkReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the tender process.
- Write a proposal.
- Understand how to follow up the tendering of a proposal.
Trading in Overseas MarketsReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the implications of trading abroad.
- Understand the legal requirements for overseas trading.
- Know the sources of support for trading overseas.
- Plan for trading abroad.
Updating Knowledge of Current Business LegislationReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation affecting a business.
- Assess legal risks to a business.
- Keep abreast of changes to legal requirements and regulations.
Website Fundamentals for a BusinessReal unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Choose web-hosting and web developer services.
- Decide on a website specification.
- Oversee and monitor the technical development of a website.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Create and lead the digital content and search engine optimisation strategy
- Develop proposals to meet external tendering requirements
- Identify opportunities, complete and submit print tenders
- Prepare the business case for the project
- Sub-contract Work for Your Business
- Tender writing: identify opportunities, complete and submit tender documents
Where this can lead
Tender Manager
Your journey as a Tender Manager here isn't just a job; it's a launchpad. We're committed to helping you grow, whether that's becoming a senior specialist, leading a team, or moving into a different part of the business. The opportunities are there if you're willing to grab them.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 25 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for OCNLR Level 3 Diploma in Creating and Sustaining a Business
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OCN London.
- Branding and Selling a Product or Service
- Creating a Social Enterprise
- Designing a Service of Saleable Quality
- Developing Social Enterprise for a Public Sector Service
- Digital Content Creation and Management for Social Media Marketing
- Giving a Business Presentation
and 15 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.